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Old 06-03-2003
swap file space
I occasionally get a "out of swap file space" error. How can I fix this??????

Thanks
# 2  
Old 06-03-2003
get a bigger swap partition or if you're feeling lazy make a big empty file and use that as a 2nd swap.
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Old 06-03-2003
I am a beginner, can you be more specific Smilie
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Old 06-03-2003
Oh yeh, forgot to tell you how to do it:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=SIZEINKB

replace SIZEINKB to something like 262144 for 256Mb

mkswap -c /swapfile SIZEINKB && sync

chmod 0600 /swapfile

finally:

add /swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0 to your /etc/fstab
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Old 06-03-2003
ps. Buying more RAM is a more ideal solution as swapping to disk is hiddeously slow compared to RAM access.

But if you don't have the money right now, the extra swap space wil be a nice stop-gap solution.
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Old 06-04-2003
Re: swap file space
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Originally posted by dtooth71
I occasionally get a "out of swap file space" error. How can I fix this??????

Thanks
What's the size of your swap partition at present? What about your RAM, how much do you have?
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Old 06-04-2003
swap file size is 58272 KB ??????on the system memory
 
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